Re: /bin/ping is group writtable

2006-09-12 Thread Tim van der Molen
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:24:13 +0200, Robert Connolly wrote: > I don't know how many of you feel comfortable with an suid-root program being > group writtable. Just FYI: /usr/bin/r{cp,login,sh} are suid-root and group-writable as well. Tim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev F

Re: More on gaim

2006-03-15 Thread Tim van der Molen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:11:22 +0100, Marc St-Jacques wrote: > The SSL FAQ on the gaim web site doesn't mention compiling libtasn1 > before gnuTLS. So when compiling gnuTLS, one gets the following message: > > *** LibtASN1 0.2.x was not found. Will use the included one. > > The compiling of gnuTL

Re: cp -r to copy recursively (but not symlinks)

2006-01-20 Thread Tim van der Molen
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:18:56 +0100, Randy McMurchy wrote: > 7. Now using *one* command only, copy all these files and directories > into the test directory you created earlier. Creating symlinks in the > destination directory doesn't count. You must create actual files in > the test directory. One

Re: Perl security vulnerability

2006-01-20 Thread Tim van der Molen
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:45:27 +0100, Dan Nicholson wrote: > It's in the errata http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/stable/ > > Thanks, Tim. My pleasure. Good to know it has been taken care of. Tim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Perl security vulnerability

2006-01-17 Thread Tim van der Molen
A while ago I posted on lfs-security about a Perl security vulnerability and a patch that remedies it: I thought the patch should be added to LFS SVN and the 6.1.1 errata. Or shouldn't it? Tim -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: RFE: linux kernel documentation

2006-01-11 Thread Tim van der Molen
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:09:37 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > install -d /usr/share/doc/linux-2.6.15 && > cp -r Documentation/* /usr/share/doc/linux-2.6.15 Perhaps it's not very relevant at this point, but don't forget to change the ownership of the installed documentation to root:root. Ti

Re: 2.6.15 Hotplugging/Coldplugging via udev

2006-01-06 Thread Tim van der Molen
Matthew Burgess wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: This sounds good, but I don't like the idea of waiting for a new release of linux-libc-headers. I'm not sure we'll see a new release before the end of the year. As in end of 2006? That's rather pessimistic! Especially considering I let folks kn